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Nimbus-5 ESMR Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures V002

Metadata Updated: April 10, 2025

The Nimbus-5 Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer (ESMR) data set consists of gridded brightness temperature arrays for the Arctic and Antarctic, spanning 11 December 1972 through 16 May 1977. The ESMR instrument senses horizontally polarized radiation at a frequency of 19 GHz. The data are gridded to a polar stereographic projection at 25 km resolution and adjusted to partially remove instrument drift and sensitivity shifts. Daily data that could not be adjusted are missing from this data set. Data are in 2-byte integer flat-binary format.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2025
Publisher NASA NSIDC DAAC
Maintainer
Identifier C1518648948-NSIDC_ECS
Data First Published 1972-12-12
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-03-31
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 9cd755c8-a631-48bd-bee3-04716276735c
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/CIRAYZROIYF9
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial -180.0 50.0 180.0 90.0
Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash b6ef8fb36e77fafbf96641eb6b72274f27f7ef20db0fb7a2f08665f97d23cc5c
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1972-12-11T00:00:00Z/1977-05-16T23:59:59.999Z

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